When you don't consume enough water during the day to support your bodily functions, your body will try to get this
water from the other organs.
Currently, patients with hypopituitarism must take expensive, lifelong hormone replacement therapies that poorly mimic the body's complex patterns of hormone secretion that fluctuates with circadian rhythms and responds to
feedback from other organs.
Similar to a trojan horse, the drug enters the liver with a trick: It uses the pancreatic hormone glucagon as vehicle to shuttle thyroid hormone T3 the live while keeping it
away from other organs, thereby improving cholesterol and lipid metabolism while avoiding typical side effects of thyroid hormone.
Their study in an animal model is an essential step toward creating tools to improve liver tumor detection in human patients — whether primary liver cancer or metastatic tumors that have
spread from other organ sites.
In response to
signals from other organs, your body fat produces hormones that help with a variety of important functions, from blood clotting to sex hormone metabolism.
Additional tissue
samples from other organs such as the lymph nodes may be necessary to determine the rate and extent of spread of a malignant neoplasm.
The researchers concluded that using collagen - based membranes in organ - on - a-chip devices enhance the growth, viability and barrier function of human colon cells and that the method likely could be extended to
cells from other organs.